The ritual
A short, honest method for brewing our Thái Nguyên green tea. Adjust to taste — tea is a conversation, not a formula.
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Rinse your teapot or gaiwan with hot water and pour it out. Cold ceramic dulls the first steep.
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3 grams of tea to 100ml of water. A heaping teaspoon is a fair starting point.
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75–80°C. Just off the boil, then rested for a minute. Boiling water scalds green tea and turns it bitter.
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45 seconds. Pour the tea off completely — don't let leaves sit in water between steeps.
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Add 15–20 seconds each time. Good Thái Nguyên gives you three honest cups; a fourth if you're patient.
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Smell the empty cup. Notice how the tea changes across steeps. That's the whole ritual.
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